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don't use their insurance. Recently I was in Istanbul and the insurance didn't activate. Their app did not register me as in Turkey. All permissions were ok, Go
by Lucadg 7y ago
don't use their insurance.
Recently I was in Istanbul and the insurance didn't activate.
Their app did not register me as in Turkey.
All permissions were ok, Google Maps worked and I purchased a cappuccino with the Revolut physical card in Istanbul.
Still, according to them I was not in Istanbul and there was some problem on my end.
So, I was uninsured.
Imagine if this happens when you are in the US and you get sick.
This is serious stuff, it's just too risky to let them play with it.
- spuz 7y agoHow do you know the insurance wasn't activated? Why does the insurance activate based on location rather than date?
- tooop 7y agoI believe that the standard card has the option to purchase insurance and it will be billed only for those days that you were abroad. I don't think that you have to activate anything if you have a plan that includes insurance (premium/metal).
- Lucadg 7y agoExactly. You can't activate it manually. It's activated by the GPS.
- stallmanite 7y agoIf GPS can be spoofed by Pokemon Go hackers this seems like a dumb thing to base anything important on like insurance being active or not. What the fuck?
- tooop 7y agoFrom user perspective: What are the odds that somebody is going to follow you when you leave your home country and do targeted GPS spoofing specifically for you while causing some kind of accident/harm to you? From Revolut perspective: insurance theoretically could be abused but i doubt they haven't calculated the risks as it would mean losing money although i don't see how this is different than me getting travel insurance online and just providing some travel info that from X to Y i need it.
- spuz 7y agoIf you are billed only for the days you are abroad that makes sense but how does the user know whether or not the insurance is active?